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You are the owner of a small Internet company.You are planning a public offering in 12 months.You ask your accountant to prepare an optimistic business model that shows a greater profitability potential than a conservative estimate would produce.When the accountant questions your profitability assumptions,you remind him that he has been given 10,000 shares of the company stock at a low price.A public offering would dramatically increase the value of those shares.Discuss the ethical issues faced by the owner and the accountant.How should they be resolved?


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